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Pleurothallis ciliata Knowles ex Westc.1837 SUBGENUS Acianthera [Scheidw.] Luer 1986

Photo by Karl Senghas and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Inflorescence

Photo courtesy of David Morris

Another Flower

Photo by © Pieter C. Brouwer and his Nature Photo Website

Drawing

Drawing of what was P lanceana

TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer

Common Name or Meaning The Ciliate Pleurothallis

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and northern Brazil at elevations of sea level to 2100 meters as a small sized, hot to cold growingshortly repent to caespitose epiphyte with an erect, stout, terete ramicaul enveloped basally by a tubular sheath below the middle and 1 to 2 others sat the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptic-lanceolate to oblong, acute, emarginate apically, basally cuneate into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the winter on a nodding, racemose, to 4" [10 cm] long, successively usually solitary, several flowered inflorescence with tubular, shorter than the ovary floral bracts.

A species often cited as P lanceana but that name is a synonym and is no longer valid

" Variable in size vegetatively, the raceme being shorter than to much longer than the leaf. The sepals are a shade of Yellow orange, while the synsepal is conspicuously suffused with brown below the middle. The sepals are variously ciliate and the calli of the lip vary in different proportions." Luer 2004

Synonyms Acianthera ciliata (Knowles & Westc.) F.Barros & L.R.S.Guim. 2010; Acianthera lanceana (Lodd. ex Lindl.) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001; Humboldtia ciliata (Knowles & Westc.) Kuntze 1891; Humboldtia crassifolia (H.Focke) Kuntze 1891; Humboldtia lanceana (Lodd. ex Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Humboldtia plumosa (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Humboldtia serrifera (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Humboldtia sprucei (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Pleurothallis ciliata var. elongata C.Schweinf. 1953; Pleurothallis crassifolia H.Focke 1849; Pleurothallis daguensis F.Lehm. & Kraenzl.1899; Pleurothallis huebneri Schltr. 1925; Pleurothallis lanceana Lodd. ex Lindl. 1859; Pleurothallis minax Rchb.f. 1854; Pleurothallis plumosa Lindl. 1842; Pleurothallis serrifera Lindl. 1859; Pleurothallis sprucei Lindl. 1859; Specklinia sprucei (Lindl.) Luer 2004

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Edwards's Bot. Reg. 28: Misc. 72. Lindl. 1842 as P plumosa;

Bonplandia Rchb.f 1854 as P minax;

Refugium Botanicum Reichenbach 1872 drawing ok;

Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 668 Kuntze 1891 as Humboldtia plumosa;

Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909 as P plumosa;

Orchids of Guatemala and Belize Ames & Correll 1952 as P plumosa;

Orchids of Peru Vol 2 Schweinfurth 1959;

Native Orchids of Trinidad Schultes 1960;

Orchidaceae Brasilensis Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 as P sprucei drawing ok;

Icones Pleurothallidiarum Vol III Systematics of Pleurothallis Luer 1986;

Native Orchids of the Eastern Carribean Kenny 1988 photo fide;